CVE-2008-1807

Red hat issued important security update for freetype package that that fix various security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. Multiple flaws were discovered in FreeType’s Printer Font Binary (PFB) font-file format parser. If a user loaded a carefully crafted font-file with a program linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash, or possibly execute arbitrary code

The FreeType engine is a free and portable font rendering engine, developed to provide advanced font support for a variety of platforms and environments. FreeType is a library which can open and manages font files as well as efficiently load, hint and render individual glyphs. FreeType is not a font server or a complete text-rendering library.

How do I fix this issue?

Simply type the following command at a shell promot:# yum update Sample output: